> On Apr 9, 2020, at 2:06 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:58 AM Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Agree to make a big deal part. My point is that when kicking trees of linux-next, it also could reduce the exposure of many patches (which could be bad) to linux-next and miss valuable early testing either from robots or human. > > Sure. But I'd want to be notified when something gets kicked out, so > that I then know not to pull it. > > So it would reduce the exposure of patches, but it would also make > sure those patches then don't make it upstream. > > Untested patches is fine - as long as nobody else has to suffer through them. Excellent. It now very much depends on how Stephen will notify you when a tree, a patchset or even a developer should be blacklisted for some time to make this a success.
